Smokeless Tobacco Product

Abstract

The present invention relates generally to a smokeless tobacco product in the form of a completely dissolvable vehicle (1; 11) comprising concentrated tobacco extract contained in a dissolvable matrix. In one embodiment, the vehicle (11) is a multilayer three-dimensional vehicle whose several layers (12, 13, 14) dissolve layer by layer in the mouth of a user.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates generally to a smokeless tobacco product in the form of a completely dissolvable vehicle comprising concentrated tobacco extract contained in a dissolvable matrix.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Smokeless tobacco, e.g. so called “snuff”, is widely used as substitute for cigarettes, cigars and other forms of smoking-tobacco as it poses comparatively less health risks to the user. Many people do also use a smokeless alternative during a transition period to reduce the acute abstinence from nicotine that may results from a sudden refraining from cigarettes.[0003]To make such tobacco more user-friendly, it is known to confine the tobacco in a small non-dissolvable, permeable pouch, which is kept in the mouth until the tobacco flavours have been extracted from the tobacco and which is then removed. It is, however, also well-known that many people find the use of such tobacco pouches little appealing or even repulsive, mainly beca...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]These objects are achieved with a dissolvable vehicle comprising a water-soluble polymer matrix in which tobacco extract has been incorporated. The tobacco extract has been freed from any type of insoluble residue, and the whole vehicle will therefore dissolve within the mouth of a user. The necessity of an unpleasant and discomfortable removal of a saliva-soaked tobacco pouch is thereby eliminated. In one embodiment of the invention, the dissolvable vehicle is a three-dimensional vehicle, which in the mouth of a user creates a three-dimensional sensation.

[0011]According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the dissolvable three-dimensional vehicle has a multilayer structure, with at least one layer comprising a water-soluble polymer matrix in which concentrated tobacco extract has been incorporated. Another layer of the three-dimensional vehicle may comprise different kinds of flavours, additives, and other drugs such as nicotine. In one embodiment of the invention, a multilayered three-dimensional vehicle is adapted to dissolve layer by layer, thereby providing for a controlled release and subsequent intake of the drugs and flavours contained in the respective layers.

Problems solved by technology

Today smokeless tobacco is sold in the form of non-dissolvable tobacco-filled permeable pouches, which a user keeps in his or her mouth until the flavours have been extracted from the tobacco and which the user then removes with his / her fingers, something that many people find unappealing.

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